Author Archive:
Heather Grady
Philanthropy’s crossroads: Navigating dilemmas to champion systemic change
As philanthropy grapples with weighty questions about its responsibility and role in addressing systemic issues, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the Shifting Systems Initiative are diving deeper into issues the initiative has explored since its inception …
How philanthropy adds value to India’s effort to achieve SDGs
How can philanthropy leverage its specialised resources to effectively contribute to India’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation? This was the question posed at a recent session in Bangalore during the second annual meeting of the …
Localizing SDG impacts through the philanthropy sector
If we as a global community are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the 17 goals that the world’s governments committed to achieve for all people by the year 2030–philanthropy must be a …
A new space is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
As the world adjusts to recent voting surprises in the UK and the US, those of us who have been promoting a universal framework, that includes fundamental goals like tackling inequality, can take some comfort …
Why the SDGs matter
One of the most important shifts in international cooperation of the last 50 years will take place in January, as the 15-year-old Millennium Development Goals campaign comes to an end and a new set of …
New mindsets and practices are needed to finance the SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals will require governments to rethink how they collect and allocate funds, and how private investors and businesses must reorient their practices towards positive social and environmental impacts. Over the past two …
Philanthropy and the post-2015 development agenda
This year, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come to an end, and all the world’s governments will agree on a Post-2015 Development Agenda and set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – as described by …
Notes from the Field: Exploring New Models for Cross-Sector Collaboration
This article originally appeared on the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ website, on 8 January 2015. The original article can be found here> Heather Grady, Senior Fellow, Global Philanthropy, shares observations from her work with the Post-2015 Platform …
Venture Philanthropy and Development
Venture Philanthropy in Development (90 pages, PDF), a new report from the OECD’s NetFWD, charts the directions that many foundations and individual philanthropists are taking to tackle today’s social, environmental, and economic challenges. While the term …
A greater role for philanthropy in development co-operation
On the east side of New York, the year has gotten off to a busy start at the UN with meetings of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. Although I’ve participated in multilateral …
